The concentric circles of Team Clinton sycophants can always be counted on to use every available avenue to avoid the reality of their own irrelevance. The latest exhibition comes today from Paul Begala, Mike Morell, and the Huffington Post trying to push the Russian Election Conspiracy Narrative.

The quote comes from an interview given by former “interim” CIA Head Mike Morell, and as you can see above, it was quickly dispatched by noted Clinton political operative Paul Begala.

However, what is intentionally not noted is the actual context of the quote – and, just like the obtuse Washington Post article the statement is built upon, the Morell deniability built into his statement. Going directly to the original source transcript (emphasis mine, IC = Intelligence Community):

[…] What was new in The Washington Post story, if its right—we still don’t know whether its right, and whether the rest of the IC agrees or not—but that the CIA believes the intent of the meddling was to help Mr. Trump and hurt Mrs. Clinton’s chances.

[…] A foreign government messing around in our elections is, I think, an existential threat to our way of life. To me, and this is to me not an overstatement, this is the political equivalent of 9/11. It is huge and the fact that it hasn’t gotten more attention from the Obama Administration, Congress, and the mainstream media, is just shocking to me. (link)

See what Morell did there? No-one knows if the Washington Post report is correct; no-one knows where this sourcing is derived from; no-one knows if the intelligence community agrees; but let me make a statement in the media, about another media report, “as if” it were…. or something.

Yet again – In essence, the politically biased MSM takes a politically manipulated original intelligence claim and pushes a political media angle within a manufactured story of their own creation.

Yes, once again, the political media reports on their own political media reports, and the concentric circle of a self fulfilling political narrative expands toward the infinite horizon of political nothingness. And so it goes….

Former interim CIA Director Mike Morell is 100% a political operative.

The entire career of Morell has been spent as a political operative, selling various political outcomes of politically charged intelligence issues.

The most infamous political exhibition of Morell was when the Obama White House needed an interim CIA director to protect Hillary Clinton from the Panetta/Clinton Libyan covert engagement, and needed General Petraeus removed from the equation.

In October 2012, one month after the September Benghazi attack, DNI Director James Clapper told CIA Director David Petraeus about the FBI investigation into his affair with Paula Broadwell. Clapper recommended Petraeus resign.

The next day Petraeus resigned and voila’, just in the nick of time, Morell becomes “Interim” CIA Director able to testify before congress about the Benghazi attack.

It was 2012 acting Director Morell who constructed the infamous CIA You Tube Intelligence “talking points”, which coincidentally seemed to aid Clinton, and blamed a video for the Benghazi attack. SEE: HERE – and HERE – and HERE

As soon as Morell was done delivering testimony, John Brennan was appointed to head the CIA. Then Morell was replaced (and went to work for Clinton):

The irony is that the taxpayers get to pay these Ivy League educated “Loser’s” a handsome six figure retirement package while they go to work as lobbiest or as a talking head’s of some 501C-3 for another six figure salary all on the taxpayers dime. One hellacious vicious circle straight out of Sodom and Gomorrah!

Should be no surprise to anyone considering how the CIA has infiltrated the U.S. media in the past, and the Washington Post in particular has been used to disseminate disinformation under Phil Graham, a former publisher:

“Alsop is one of more than 400 American journalists who in the past twenty‑five years have secretly carried out assignments for the Central Intelligence Agency, according to documents on file at CIA headquarters. Some of these journalists’ relationships with the Agency were tacit; some were explicit. There was cooperation, accommodation and overlap. Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services—from simple intelligence gathering to serving as go‑betweens with spies in Communist countries. Reporters shared their notebooks with the CIA. Editors shared their staffs. Some of the journalists were Pulitzer Prize winners, distinguished reporters who considered themselves ambassadors without‑portfolio for their country. Most were less exalted: foreign correspondents who found that their association with the Agency helped their work; stringers and freelancers who were as interested in the derring‑do of the spy business as in filing articles; and, the smallest category, full‑time CIA employees masquerading as journalists abroad. In many instances, CIA documents show, journalists were engaged to perform tasks for the CIA with the consent of the managements of America’s leading news organizations.”
– Carl Bernstein

Yes, this is true. The original founder(s) of the CIA were huge patriots, upper class elite citizens who treasured their country and the Constitution above all else. Journalist/reporters put themselves in that class as well, though many were not even college-educated – all were highly patriotic and loved adventure and being in-the-know.

Where was the media and leftist outrage when the Obama Admin and the NSA were caught spying on the Congress of the United States?

Remember this:

U.S. SPY NET SNARES CONGRESS – JAN 2016

“……news that the Obama administration targeted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for continued close electronic surveillance — even as it curbed it for other friendly leaders — still is pretty startling.

As is The Wall Street Journal’s disclosure that the sweep included conversations with US Jewish groups and members of Congress.

The last is especially critical: Careful rules govern how the National Security Agency can handle such intercepted conversations, and it’s not clear they were followed.

But it’s also significant that Team Obama apparently had no problem with spying on Americans engaged in legitimate political activity — in this case, trying to block the president’s dubious nuclear deal with Iran.”

It might seem laughable, but we shouldn’t ignore what is going on. This plan of theirs could work. You can tell by the saber rattling with Russia via MSM news articles, that team Hillary seems to think their new plan to steal the electoral college will work. Maybe it will, maybe it won’t. But we haven’t come this far because we were asleep at the wheel. http://wp.me/p7kZHT-iz

I am too! I try to avoid reading anything from MSM. But, it’s everywhere you look! Normally I laugh because it’s so ridiculous! However, last night I became so disgusted with everything! MSM, Clinton, Obama and their pathetic excuses.

January 20th can’t come soon enough! Until then I will focus on the great things President Trump has already done to MAGA!

How is the OPM hacking investigation going? 4 million Federal employees affected. Sounds serious, a foreign power mucking around in supposedly secure Federal databases with all those SF86s. Have not heard anything since the lead investigator resigned right before she was scheduled to testify before Congress. Looks like they were blaming the Chinese, but not too loudly.

If the bought and paid for Goebbels-Pravda media were doing there jobs, some of the information may have come. But since they were lapdogs for Hillary, it took Wikileaks assisted by the Russians, perhaps, to get the information out, which has never been denied. I say nominate Wikileaks and their source(s) for a Pulitzer Prize in investigative journalism

“Just a few minutes ago on CNN, David Gregory called this Russian Hacking “An Act of War”.”
I won’t believe Russians did it until Colin Powell makes the case in front of the UN… Oh, wait, that was the Iraq war, how did that go?

Heck, and outright overthrow them (democratically elected leaders), as we did in Ukraine, 2 years ago, and in so many other countries over the past 60 years. I think Mossadegh, in Iran, was the first, in the early 50s. Given all the chaos and war Clinton has brought to a number of other countries, she has a lot of nerve pushing this narrative.

notamemberofanyorganizedpolicital,
Speaking of “woodsheds”, wouldn’t it be AWESOME if President Trump had a sign installed inside the Golden Elevator that said “Woodshed this way ^” (To be put in place before “meetings” with willard, rahmbo, and decaffrio)?

The boy has cried ‘Wolf!’ 5 too many times. No one believes the US Gruberment or its foot boy the Fake Newz media any more.

The more and more this goes on… first comatose, then the death rattle, then the grey look, then the smell, then the funeral fire, then scattering of ashes. I think we are getting close to scattering of ashes.

If I were Trump…I’d buy a new truck, I really could use one. Next I’d have my DoJ and Treasury heads turn the full weight of their agencies against the Clintons. Actually, I’d have them do it but claim that I had nothing to do with it, it was entirely their spontaneous idea.
The lying, criminal witch wants to play the political ‘I’m not touching you’ game after Trump gave her a bye on a number of crimes? He says he’s not going to investigate her and she does this? Dhe deserves to get put under the magnifying glass and Imhope the sun’s shining very brightly, she deserves the full punishment.

I have as yet to understand how those tricky Russians got thousands and thousands of Americans to attend the Trump rallies during the primaries and the general elections. And at the same time discouraged attendees at the hags rallies. Those tricky Russians!

Our main goal is to get Mr. Trump past the finish line so he and his white hat administration can expose the obama/clinton corrupt regime and their globalist handlers than prosecute and throw azzes in prison for treason.

I guess I dont get it. It was no secret the msm was helping Clinton, there was nothing for hackers to expose. And since the msm are STILL doing it, it means they believe it is a correct and proper course of action. Then we learned of Podesta’s preference for satanic ritual. But this can’t be much more demeaning and soul-damning than working for Clinton.

Who made the e-mails public? Wikileaks. Has Wikileaks ever been known to make a false statement about its sources? (No – unlike the CIA, which lies all day every day) What has Wikileaks said about where it got the e-mails? Well, Wikileaks promoted this column and the explanation therein: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/807903010919747584

-Uranium
-Reset Button
-“I can be more flexible after the election”
-Ending the Missile Shield program – didn’t matter that Poland & the Czech Republic were upset
-Why is John McCain worried about Russia when he was cool with the Chi-Coms having access to our Defense Dept. communications system through contract with Global Crossing (which George W. Bush cancelled early in his first year, first term, to the fury of John McCain, who as Chairman of the Commerce Committee approved that contract) – will SOMEONE in the news media/blogosphere finally challenge John McCain on this?
What’s the deal all of a sudden about how terrible Russia is? I want our country to team up with Russia to wipe out ISIS – remember, Russia warned our country about the Tsarnaev Brothers BEFORE the Boston Marathon Bombing – there is another story there which requires deeper investigation – when is that going to happen?
Meanwhile, I do not want to go to war AGAINST Russia – I think if I ever fly anywhere again, I will go to Moscow next time instead of Paris –
meanwhile, check out this video on youtube or type in Moscow 2012 “Puttin On The Ritz”

I really DO NOT want to go to war against these lovely young people!
(Western Civilization needs to stick together)

This is utterly absurd. This latest episode is another perfect example of what we’ve allowed our government to turn into. A small clique of corrupt, entitled, immature criminal miscreants use our system, our tax dollars & our institutions as their personal fiefdom

They, the self serving elitist “kings & queens” of governance, simply cannot comprehend that their reign is over & they’ve been voted out, so they, under their delusional mindset of self importance, use our governmental departments as their personal attack dogs, to go after lawfully elected citizens

The CIA itself hasn’t made, as far as I can tell, ANY public, attributable comment on Russia. (Please correct me if I’m wrong). The Obama admin is the one who announced early on that ‘The Russians did it!’. Trump has access to intel briefings and he has no trouble laughing off these claims even with ‘insider info’. How much of this media flap is an attempt to drive a wedge between Trump and the CIA?
It boggles my mind that daily we get so called ‘leaders’ of the left publicly calling for war with Russia. First no fly zones, now this ex-CIA muppet wants a public ‘deterrence’ response Right Now? And it’s Trump who has the ‘unstable attitude’ problem?
Even the article linked above calls out the logic fail of the entire Ruspiracy. At the end, it calls on Obama that he should be acting on this intel in a public manner, not Trump. What have we heard from Obama about actual actions? Nada. So maybe there IS no solid intel.. hmmmmm…

This story offers the perfect litmus test. It’s obviously fake news, and anyone stupid or ignorant or corrupt enough to take the bait (eg, Graham, McCain, and virtually every Democrat) must be mercilessly ridiculed and vilified.

Very easy to see why Mr Trump isn’t putting a whole lot of stock in the 0bummer sycophant (un) intelligence briefing. It’s gonna take massive amounts of bleach and sunlight to get this admin’s stains out.

Some liberal friends are coming to dinner next week (hey, it’s Vermont, ya know?). I’m going to print a life-sized photo of Putin’s face, and prop it up so it looks like he’s peeking over the back of the couch. Should be fun when they notice it…

Need to watch Tucker @fox news, he interviews Rep. Adam Kinzinger on the Russia Hacking of the DNC and how does that effect election. But what does it have to with Podesta email Hack.
The so called hack was actually malware that is on an email attachment that an individual opens. It proves how silly this is. It proofs what I said in earlier post. Podesta email release was not a Hack, it was a Phishing coy, a trick for the email receiver to give out their password. Which any school kid can perform.
The Phisher hopes for a stupid person receiving the email. It comes down to following secure protocols in handling email that any government or business should employee.
But our government will spend $millions investigating Russia.
Their are thousands of individuals that make a living doing email attachments and phishing in Russia and western Europe on the USA. Because they won’t go to jail stealing from another country. Then they sell the credit card numbers, passwords they steal to the Dark Web. That’s how your credit card charges appears at a store in Central America.

The left will continue to throw garbage out there, many low information folks are very gullible and believe whatever MSM puts out, but refuse to listen to logic. Podesta and Hillary emails show the blatant corruption, but the left chooses not to believe. We talk about fake news, how about fake conservatives? They hang out with conservatives, but think they are better than us and will never change their position until it impacts them directly and personally and it can’t be blamed on the right.

This manipulation of our economy and government supports the “Deep State” that feeds the interests of the NWO…and they will not forfeit their position(s) without a bloody fight. We’ve been warned multiple times. Maybe now that we have a leader who appears to be outside the tentacles of this cabal, we will unite to decimate them.

Did the RUSSKIES INVENT the DemoncRAT emails – NO THEY DIDN’T
Did the RUSSKIES INVENT the stories of DemoncRAT THUGS being paid to cause mayhem at Trump Rallies – NO THEY DIDN’T
Did the RUSSKIES make Clintoon call half of Americans DEPLORABLES – NO THEY DIDN’T
Did the RUSSKIES force Clintoon to take a MONTH off campaigning- NO THEY DIDN’T
Did the RUSSKIES make Clintoon IGNORE the swing states – NO THEY DIDN’T
Did the RUSSKIES make Clintoon one of the most DISLIKED candidates ever – NO THEY DIDN’T Clintoon did that all HERSELF.

“Once again, Trump and Flynn are correct in pointing out the one salient fact about the CIA: it is inept! Subsequently, it does not deserve to exist anymore. All of this was basically coded in Trump’s laconic retort: “Russian hacking is ridiculous!”

Treepers, I really think we need to pay attention to the latest scam that the Clinton campaign is running, regarding this fake news story about the Russian’s hacking the election. Before I am piled on about “fear mongering”, I just want to say that my motives are never to incite fear, but to bring Christians to their knees. http://wp.me/p7kZHT-iz